Surprised to see Manchester, New Hampshire on the list. Back in the “bad old days” of Manchester Union Leader editor Bill Loeb (a friend), the whole state was in good shape.
Then came the Demonrat influx from New York and it has been going downhill ever since. These carpetbaggers did the same thing to Vermont (a leftist plan that began about 1975), Maine, and Connecticut (illegals finished it off).
My opinion is, that if the low educated voters and white rich liberals want these incredibly stupid pension programs, let them pay for it while their cities go to hell like Detroit.
Then they have have shoot-outs in the street for what is left, high crime rates, physically disintegrating structures, and unemployment so high that they will need oxygen masks just to survive.
Sometimes you just can’t fit STUPID and the Democrats are STUPID on STEROIDS. Getting what they voted for.
Sane people should leave for Texas.
You have nailed it...most people blame Red Hampshire's woes on Massachusetts, but in reality the problems come from the source you cite. My wife was born in Red Hampshire...she doesn't even recognize it anymore.